Julia Adeney Thomas
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Associate Professor, Department of History, Notre Dame
Full Biography
Julia Adeney Thomas teaches history at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (winner of the AHA John K. Fairbank Prize), Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power, and more than forty articles including "History and Biology in the Anthropocene: Questions of Scale, Questions of Value" in the AHR and "The Uneasy Alliance between Scientists and Non-Scientists in the Neoliberal University" in Environmental History.